Andrew Roberts Quotes
I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
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I'm very content.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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I have selective hearing.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
